HOW DO I KNOW GOD's VOICEInspire Fall Series

While Father Chris was unable to be with us for the third talk in this series, as promised, he has shared with us a longer version of the talk entitled "What do I do when I can't hear God?".

What do I do when I can't hear God?Part One

What do I do when I can't hear God?Part Two

Meet Fr. Chris Schroeder

Fr. Chris Schroeder, S.J., comes from St. Louis, MO. He graduated from De Smet Jesuit High School, and after a two-year period of discernment as a student at Saint Louis University, in which he discovered that the Jesuits in his life were “the most successful men I knew,” he entered the Jesuit novitiate in 2002. As a Jesuit, Fr. Chris continued his academic formation at SLU and at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, studying along the way topics like the emotions’ role in perception, the relationship of human reason and faith, rhetorical theory and its use in preaching/Bible interpretation, and the Early Church’s understanding of salvation as a process of divinization. ​As a Jesuit, Fr. Chris has been highly influenced by his time in Central America. Spread over various periods and in various countries, especially Belize and El Salvador, these assignments helped him to learn to speak in Spanish as well as to foster a love of pastoral contact with people at the economic and geographic margins.

​In addition, Fr. Chris has taught at Arrupe Jesuit High in Denver, where he was also director of the school’s Kairos retreat program. He has also been a staff writer for TheJesuitPost.org, a media outlet run by Jesuits in formation that seeks “to show that faith is relevant to today’s culture and that God is already at work in it.” He has written on topics such as how baseball illustrates grace, his experience working among prisoners at San Quentin, as well as helping to cover Pope Francis’ visit to Brazil for World Youth Day 2013. He was ordained in St. Louis in 2014, and prior to his assignment at Montserrat, he was an assistant pastor in St. Francis Xavier parish and the campus ministry chaplain for Rockhurst University, both in Kansas City, MO.